Wichita eagle., 1887-11-12

L
vious Lingg had been purchasing and
experimenting with dynamite as the paid
agent of one of the seven international
groups" but subsequent events showed
beyond any remarkable doubt that this
particular explosive made the bomb that
was heard round the world The bomb
with fifty others manufactured by Lingg
under the auspices of the International as
ISOLATION, which furnished the money, and
of which the celebrated defendants were
not members simply, but leaders
Next day, May /, the eight-hour strikes
began in earnest, and by nightfall when
the first intelligent estimates We're obtain
able, 10000 men walked the streets idle.
Promptly in the morning, Sunday, when
the churches throughout the city were re
sounding with swelling hosannas, the
stuffy little Bohemian hall on Emma
street was crowded with members of
THE LEHR AND WEIR vEREIN,
an inner circle of the omnipresent Inter
national Detailed plans for the carat-
hand conflict with the police Were submit
ted by Editor Engel and listened TO by
Spies lieutenant, Fischer. The plans
were the ones followed almost to the letter
at the Haymarket, but the decision to do
so was not reached at this meeting. In
stead it was determined to take action at
another gathering of the Lehr and Weir
in larger hall and more central location,
to be assembled within twenty-fOur hours.
This was to be in Greifs hall, Monday
night, May 3.
The Arbeiter Zeitung. of which Spies
and Schwab were the editors and mana
gers. called together the armed men who
were to engage in this
SPECIFIC COMPACT TO MURDER.
The Sunday evening edition, published
few hours after the Bohemian Hall meet
nod bal ca
KOmme Montag Abend." )Y-Come Mon
day night. This was the summons TO the
armed sections TO meet, as they did Mon
day night at Grief's. The call was pub
lished again Monday afternoon, indicating
the Importance of the matters to come be
fore the meeting. The Sunday issue Of the
Arbeiter had significant article urging
quick and immediate action adding:
by Monday or Tuesday the conflict must
have reached the highest intensity, else
success will then be doubtful" Almost
before the ink on this coulSd dry, Spies was
at the Sunday afternoon meeting OF the
Central Labor Union arranging TO have
himself dispatched to McCormick's fac
tory the following day to address the thOus
ands of strikers out along the Old Black
Road.
From the top of a freight car, on the
prairie near McCormick's next afternoon
-Monday-Spies belched into the ears of
1900 excited strikers, mostly foreigners,
the hottest harangue ever uttered by linn
in public. He spoke in the German Ian
guage, of which he was more master e~en
than of English. The effect of his words
were like magic.
ION TO M'CORMICK'Sn'
was the cry The maddened horde, urged
forward by Spies, Lingg and other daring
anarchists present, rushed at the great
factory like so many wild beasts. They had
caught up powders and clubs on the way
and in an instant the thousand windows
of the factory were being shivered in count
less fragments. Then it was that patrol
wagons, loaded with police, the horses COW
cred with foam, dashed through the crowd
from behind. 1t is admitted by Spies that
he ordered the mob many of whom were
fiourishing revOlvers, to resist the attempt
of the police to quell the riot. Of course
the victors were the police, but that to
Spies, according to his own accounts, was
not of main concern. The blood of work
ingmen had been drawn, and when he sat
istied himself that such RESULT was pro-
duced, the anarchist leader coOlly with
drew though the battle was at its height.
Taking street car direct to the Arbeiter
Zeltung office, Spies, after hurried con-
sultation with Schwab Neebe and others.
decided to call the Haymarket mass meet
ing and then wrote
THE INFAMOUS REVENGE CIRCULAR"
Twenty-Five hundred copies were issued as
quickly as printers could work and every
thing was now ripe for the murder-com-
pact meeting that night in Grief, base
ment, the same that had been called by the
Arbeiter Zeitung that day and the day be-
fore. In this connection the exact word
ing CT the circular, especially the latter
portion, forcshadOwing the slaughter of
the morrow, the fatal 4th of May, possesses
peculiar interest. Spies wrote:
REVENGE! REVENGE! woRKMEN TO ARMs!''
MEN of labor, this afternoon the blood
hounds of your oppressOrs murdered six OF
your brothers at McCormicks. Why did
they murder them Because they dared to
be dissatisfied with the lot which Your OPP
pressors have assigned TO them. They de-
manded bread and they gave them lead for
an answer. mindful of the fact that thus
people are most effectively silenced. You
have for many, many years endured every
humiliation without protest: have drudged
from early in the morning till late at night:
have suffered all sorts of privatiOns, have
even sacrificed your children. You nave
done everything TO fill the Golfers of your
masters-everything for them; and now,
when you approach them and implOre
them to make your burden little lighter,
as d reward for YOUR sac
ritices they send their bloodhOunds-the po-
lice-at you in order TO cure YOU with bull
lets, of your dissatisfaction Slaves. we
ask and conjure you, by all that is sacred
and dear to you, avenge the atrocious muir
der which has been committed on your
brothers today, and which will likely be
committed upon you tomorrow Labor
ing men, Hercules, you have arrived at
the crossway Which way will You decides
For slavery and hunger or for freedom and
bread? If you decide for the latter then
do not delay a moment; then, people, to
arms This must be your motto. Think of
road to progress, liberty and humanity, and
to strive and become worthy of them.
Your BROTHERS"
Neebe and other notables of the |. A. A.
took horses, and in person scattered the
circulars broadcast, not failing TO leave
copies with the rank and file of the inter
national armed sections gathering in
Griefs Hall, 81 West Lake street That
the circular gave the impulse TO the action
of the armed sections at this Monday
night meeting. and inspired the adoption
of
THE PLAN OF BOMB-THRowESG
agreed upon, is apparent from the fact that
its contents We're first fully discussed.
Then the complete detailed plan of the
particular method of inaugurating the
wholesale murder for which they originally
VI SoilILcu WIS ioTlhdlll couSiutreu ana
adopted, the time for the slaughter being
left for the Arbeiter Zeitung to designate
by publishing the single word "ruhe."
(peace.) This latter feature was the work
of AGolph Fischer. who had come to the
meeting straight from the Arbeiter Zeit-
ung, where he had been assisting Spies and
Schwab. That Fischer was carrying out
the plans of his superiors appears more
clearly from the circumstances that it was
he who
MANEUvERED THE EARNED SECTIONS"
out of their idea of holding the Hay-